Boingo Wireless and Linksys announced a joint hotspot in a box program which will make commercial WiFi hotspot business opportunities available to small businesses such as coffee shops, restaurants, doctor's offices, gas stations, independent hotels, retail outlets, and office lobbies where high speed wireless Internet access is available. The Hot Spot in a Box feature is available on the Linksys Wireless-G VPN Broadband Router (WRV54G), the company's small business WiFi router solution. Current Linksys WRV54G customers may also upgrade their router with the Boingo Hot Spot in a Box feature at no additional charge by downloading new firmware from the Linksys website.
-snip- Every time a commercial user connects to the hot spot, the hot spot owner would receive a connect fee of currently either $4 for a daily user or $1 for a Boingo Roaming System subscriber. And if a new subscriber signs up for a monthly hot spot subscription for the first time, the venue owner would currently earn a $20 "bounty". All related marketing, billing, 1-800 technical support and other back-office services are handled by Boingo and its Platform Services partners. To attract users, the venue will be listed in online hot spot directories sponsored by Boingo and Intel Corp. and the business will receive a Boingo/Intel(R) marketing kit including table tents, posters, Centrino(TM) window stickers and other materials. Both the business owner and Wi-Fi users have access to Boingo's customer support. -snip- http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=50962 pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
